DAILY: My favorite technical books

January 5th, 2009 by mike downey Leave a reply »

I highly recommend all of these books.

Essential ActionScript 3.0 – Colin Moock

Learning ActionScript 3.0: A beginner’s guide – Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser

Head First PHP & MySQL - Lynn Beighley and Michael Morrison

Programming Flex 3 – Chafic Kazoun and Joey Lott

Adobe Flex 3 Training from the Source - Jeff Tapper, Michael Labriola, Matthew Boles, James Talbot

PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide - Larry Ullman

Scott Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3

The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers – Scott Kelby

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery – Garr Reynolds

UPDATE:

I have to add another book to the list. This one was written by two very good friends of mine: Greg Rewis and Stephanie Sullivan. Though I haven’t read it yet because they haven’t sent me a copy (*ahem*) I know it has to be an excellent resource for anyone working with CSS. Greg taught me almost everything I know about Evangelism as he and I have traveled all over the world together since 2000 talking about Dreamweaver, Flash, AIR, and other Macromedia/Adobe tools. He knows more about Dreamweaver than anybody I know. Stef is an expert in all things CSS, HTML, web standards, etc.

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14 comments

  1. Liz Myers says:

    Thanks Mike – very helpful!

  2. Greg Rewis says:

    Hey, Mike – noticed you didn’t mention MY book… ;-)

  3. Mike Downey says:

    @greg rewis: D’OH! Sorry, man. If you had sent me a copy it might have reminded me to recommend it. ;-)

    The post has now been updated.

  4. Deborah says:

    Mike, I heartily agree with you on “Learning ActionScript 3.0.” Without a doubt the best ActionScript book I’ve ever read. Essential ActionScript 3 made my head hurt. But I’ll get there. Thanks. I’m going to check out the rest of these books as I learn more.

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  12. capsiplex says:

    A great list of books, some which I had not heard of and will have to take a look at. I particulary enjoyed reading Presentation Zen, some really inspiring ideas in there and well worth reading.

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